by Prosper Mérimée · SGEL TEXTO (PRECIO FIJO) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782011694775
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«Tamango» is the short novel by Prosper Mérimée, published by SGEL TEXTO in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Captain Ledoux, an expert sailor, commands the Esperanza, a ship of the triangular trade. Tamango, a Senegalese warrior, supplies him with slaves, but the pact between them is a deception and Tamango himself may end up as the captain's prey. The work portrays the cruelty of the slave trade, which continued despite its prohibition in 1815.
School edition in French from the Bibliocollège collection: complete annotated text, questionnaires, iconographic documents and a group of texts on abolition.
For secondary school students studying French literature in the classroom, with teaching resources that facilitate the study of the text.
Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called The Lady and the Unicorn, arranging for their preservation. He was instrumental in the creation of Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, where the tapestries now are displayed. The official database of French monuments, the Base Mérimée, bears his name.
